The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1887-04-15
ITS DAMNABI.E WASTE.

measurable odds the queen Of trade an'
manufacturing. There Is no natios
which approaches her in the magnitude
Of cotton manufacture, soolen manafsc
ture and many utllerE--and her expoFl
trade Is commensurate with her produc
tions.
A comparison II magsiludes il il
order here. Her exports of her own
cotton products are averaging $780,
O00,000 year her exports Of metals
and manufactures thereof are averaging
1874 ,00O, 600 year, ,iucluding all crude
iron, copper, tin, lead, etc. and the pao-
ducts thereof her exports Of oil Glasses
OF woollun goods are averaging 500, 600,
600 year her exports Of liaen aud
jute fabrics are averaging $50, 600, 900
year aud there arn no other products .
Of her industries which ars exported 70
the amount Of 100000
The exports Of ber ooiton nanufue-
lures are. therefore. WORTH more ihsn
three times ~ Huch as her exports u
all metals aud Of all manufactures Of
all metals, iaclnding. Of course. iron and
steel l.
Her exports Of cotton gods ara wor.h
more than the exports of the mssala
and of any dozen hor ether principal
manufactures combined by sll0,0o0,-
900.
The total salue Of the expnrts Of
Eng,iah msnnfactnrss and artisan pro-
duets, cfudn and tinishel, Ii averaging
81 $50, 600, 600 year,
The cotton manufactures acreage
$3.50, ,000, GOO in this 81 ,I50, 900. 900.
England IL working up 700, 600, ,000
pouads of cotton iafe thi. comn,erci4l
wealth every ysar,ani Al that quantity
she takes frou: the Southern stocks oi
the American Uuion 1000. .O00, 600
pounds every year.
England pays $3.50, 900, 600 a year
for the raw oottons sha impnrt~, aud Of
this she pays sl75, 100000 tor that
which she imports trom the S,u,hsra
States.
England sells the goods made Of this
cotton at $i00, ,00o, 600 avery wear, and
Of this abe salls tbs product Of our
Southern Ssa.ea Tor $4,000, 900.
She buys il iron u, for slT5, ,o0O. 900,
and sells il, si,h hsr labor addsd, for
3I5.000,000.
SIZE sells $4,000. 900 II onr cl.,on.
snd sIf0,000,000 worth OF aer own
lsbCr aud skiIi l. scId with tbe cotton
as the medium cf conveyanca anL som-
mercial distribution thereof.
The people Of the South have posses
sion Of this cotton IL lis cheapest and
best form. Ensland hays At vAriog.
costs for commissions. Insurance., iuIanl
and ocean catriage, and = coasipgent
for profits. thus Increasing the tlxsd
charges for manufacture And ssls-
charges of which .hs South is slmeat
wholly relieved.
England buys 100, 900 pounds Of
this relatively dear cotton from all
quarters If the earth. aud ,ur Southern
States produce 5000. 600 pounds of this
cheap cotton on their own sell.
What an unspeakahle waste I What
an insane saorifi,e WIS: nn indescrib-
ably stupid blundsr and crime ia here
revealed
Lauguree staggers under the burden
Of IL. No words can do it justice. Il
the facts we're not before ouY ayss, ths
imagination Of man could hardly frams
IL IS thing conesisahls that noderu
representative Government could etn-
pioy It's powers year af.er year in thu
imposerhhing, rebbing, beggAring II
peopls-and that, TOO, thus despoilin,
the interests and life blood of DOMESTIC
production under the strange prstens'
Of protecting domestic production
What pen coull do this justice II th
fraudulent traveaty on Law called th
tariff would oaly spare ns the naturs
privilege Of coming down steadily I
the bed -rosk OF natural composition, W
would soon ba leading the world ,isdus
trialIy anu commercially.
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